Re: Problem with load order on Gnome login

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:47:54PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > 1. Gnome is setting the backround AFTER my ETerms are started. Thus > they > cannot get the root backround. Can't answer this one, although it makes sense to me. Eterm is evil in any case. If all you want is transparency, use s

Xstartup error

I have been running Woody with KDE and xfree86 from Sid. I did an apt-get upgrade tonight without first checking to see what would be upgraded. So, stupid mistake, I know. Now, however, I cannot start KDE. I can get the kdm login screen, but if I enter a user/password, I get the following error

Adsl/network problem "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"

Just got my adsl modem today(cisco 677). But I can't get it to work... My provider says to first run the command #dhcpcd eth0 and that I should add to /etc/resolv.conf Search provider Nameserver xx.xxx.xx.xx Nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.x and then run the command #route add default gw 10.0.0.1 netmask

server advice

I'd like to ask your wise advice about setting up a Debian machine as a web and mail server for a small university department. I maintain a small network (6) of linux machines for the department. Cheap hardware, mostly, but they've been wonderfully dependable. We also have a departmental server (

RE: About the i586 / i386 ' optimized releases ' differences ?

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 10:08, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | >| linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember > | >| correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library > | >| binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that > | >| the polic

Does Netscape cause lockups?

I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total lockups which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I think, but not sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been running at these times. Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. Has anyone seen this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running L

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total lockups > which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I think, but not > sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been running at these times. > Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. > > Has anyone seen this? Doe

Re: NFS client screwy directories.

> "Douglas" == Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Douglas> I am running debian sid. I am on a network with my Douglas> homedirectory served via NFS by a Dell intel box (note, Douglas> not IRIX) running Redhat 7.1. Douglas> Under kernels 2.4.14 [patched with sourceforge NF

booting is very difficult

i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine though. Apparantly it's complaining that there is no active boot partition, bu

Re: booting is very difficult

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:42:07 -0600 "Rory O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Apparantly it's complaining that there is no active boot partition, but it > states quite clearly in the lilo.conf file that boot=/dev/hda1 (and yes, i > did re-run lilo just to be sure). Wrong, should be 'boot=/

NFS problem

hi debian users i have a problem with NFS : i have the domaine 'foo' on B,C and D computer i would like to export a repertory to all the domain. So on each /etc/exports file i write : for B : /share *.foo for C : /usr/local/share*.foo for D : /home/divers*.fo

Re: booting is very difficult

well, i changed it to boot=/dev/hda and i still get my familiar old "LI" interesting thing - i have a couple other slave drives on the system and just to test i unplugged them and booted. LILO did start to load linux, but I got "kernel panic" - no init found. sheesh. i just can't win i guess. I

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

--- Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of > intermittent total lockups > > which occur every few days, always when I'm > online. I think, but not > > sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been > running at these times.

Re: booting is very difficult

Some point you did not say I don't know for sure. Your hard driver geometry, is it over 1024 cylinder? Your lilo.conf should like this boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/your_root # if over 1024 lba32 # must have option compact Check in BIOS, in the hard drive configuration, pls see if it has a featur

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:42, Erik Steffl wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to > > > filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer: > > > > > >

filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: /var/log/syslog: ... Nov 15 23:38:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[18175]: (list) CMD ([ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/q runner ] && /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrun

Re: booting is very difficult

check the Bootdisk-HOWTO-12.html for specific LILO error codes. Rory O'Connor wrote: > > i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the > same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to > boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency

setting up www access

I have acquired a username, password and phone number for a local isp and am having trouble setting up a dial-up connection. I've been trying to use the default PPP utility that comes with GNOME but it seems to want lots additional information I don't know how to provide. Any help much appreciated.

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:42, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to > > > > filter email. I have several questions that I ho

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

Also sprach "Timo: > b) evolution: needs lots of dependencies (many from GNOME) and was > broken in sid last time, but when it works, it is just the best; a pure > Outlook clone but better! (mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, portal...) I've been looking to migrate from kmail to evolution for a lon

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My god, Mozilla is fine if you got 128Mb RAM and at > least 200MHz CPU. If less than that, I would recommend > Opera, althouth some buggy in file upload and no java > support, but it is fine. Opera will add and fix soon I > hope. Another one should be Galeo

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

op wrote: > > Also sprach "Timo: > > > b) evolution: needs lots of dependencies (many from GNOME) and was > > broken in sid last time, but when it works, it is just the best; a pure > > Outlook clone but better! (mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, portal...) > > I've been looking to migrate from k

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

Erik Steffl said: > system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 > > my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: > I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok... > any > ideas on what's going on? while i can't speak for 2.4.10 but 2.2 will remount a filesy

freeamp and synchronizing the My Music with filesystem?

freeamp can search computer for the music after I move files around, get new files etc. there's no way to update this info. I can search again but this adds ALL the files again (so most of the files have two instances in My Music). did I miss something? TIA erik

Re: anjuta & aclocal problem

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:20:20 +0100, > "MD" == "Mirek Dobsicek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MD> Hi, I've install Anjuta(0.1.7) , glade and glade-- on my woody box MD> but there are some errors when I try to create a Gnome project in it. MD> When a project is beeing created, it tells me th

Re: setting up www access

check the man pages for /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, and wvdial. you'll need to know the IP addresses for your ISPs nameservers, the port for your modem, and its speed. Simon R Tod wrote: > > I have acquired a username, password and phone number for a local isp > and am having trouble setting u

tin, leafnode and expired news groups

I have a problem having tin recognize groups that were expired by leafnode. Does anyone else have a similar problem? -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka (replace these parenthesis with @) bezeqint, delete the comma and the white space characters and add .net

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

Anthony Campbell said: > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total > lockups which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I > think, but not sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been running > at these times. Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. > > Has anyone seen this? i have

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

take a look at http://counter.li.org/ there's a link to uptime statistics and a explanation on the 497 days wrap. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Paul McHale wrote: > > Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot. > I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and

dot matrix printing labels

Hi, I'm looking into printing labels from a roll of labels one label wide on a dot-matrix printer from a debian box. I don't want to print a whole page of them at once, only one at a time - depending on when the stock comes in. Does anyone know how this incremental print could be done. A la

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

Craig Dickson said: > This has not happened to me since switching to Mozilla, a far > superior browser in every respect (well, starting with 0.9.4, at > least). without roaming access i won't be switching away from netscape 4.7x anytime soon(though i do use opera a lot on the side) im !$#@ piss

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

> Right, and *nobody* these days has 128MB and a > 200MHz CPU these days. I still have one box 20mb ram and one 128 :-); > Get real. Opera is non-free commercial crap. In > the unlikely event i agree ; but for those not enough money to buy more ram or utilize old machine... Frankly, there

Re: NFS problem

Nicolas Lamirault said: > hi debian users > somebody have an idea to correct me in my config ? > thanks sounds like a permissions issue. what userid are you trying to view the files as? either make sure that that userid(the numerical id) has access to those files or turn on the no_root_squash opt

Re: setting up www access

I have acquired a username, password and phone number for a local isp and am having trouble setting up a dial-up connection. I've been trying to use the default PPP utility that comes with GNOME but it seems to want lots additional information I don't know how to provide. Any help much appreciated

temporary freeze related to gnome double-click?

this is quite strange, it happens with at least two gnome apps (gnucash and freeamp): when I double-click on some item (item that is opened by double-clicking) the application freezes for certain time and fvwm freezes as well (focus doesn't changes, no window decoration or fvwm modules react t

Re: setting up www access

Simon R Tod said: > I have acquired a username, password and phone number for a local > isp and am having trouble setting up a dial-up connection. I've > been trying to use the default PPP utility that comes with GNOME > but it seems to want lots additional information I don't know how > to provide

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

=?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= said: > Frankly, there are some features the I did not find in > any browser *yet* except opera. Put aside its > commercial crap, just look at its features, multi > windows , easy search tool and its rendering speed, > what do you think? well, I still use it mainly in

Re: booting is very difficult

--- Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some point you did not say I don't know for sure. > > Your hard driver geometry, is it over 1024 cylinder? > > Your lilo.conf > > should like this > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/your_root > # if over 1024 > lba32 OOOP, I miss the word *not* so it

apt-get: 404s on update/install

I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. A typical result is like: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or \ old ones us

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

nate wrote: > > Erik Steffl said: > > system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 > > > > my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: > > > I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok... > > any > > ideas on what's going on? > > while i can't speak for 2

Re: server advice

Jim McCloskey said: > > I'd like to ask your wise advice about setting up a Debian machine > as a web and mail server for a small university department. I > maintain a small network (6) of linux machines for the department. > Cheap hardware, mostly, but they've been wonderfully dependable. i run

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

Erik Steffl said: > (that was the only error) try forcing a bad block scan. when ive gotten that remounting error i had bad blocks. a good sign for a failing drive or otherwise misconfigured system(cable too long, controller going bad, bad driver etc) would be if the system says FILE SYSTE

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

=?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= said: > My god, Mozilla is fine if you got 128Mb RAM and at > least 200MHz CPU. If less than that, I would recommend > Opera, althouth some buggy in file upload and no java > support, but it is fine. Opera will add and fix soon I > hope. Another one should be Galeon,

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:54:16AM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My god, Mozilla is fine if you got 128Mb RAM and at > > least 200MHz CPU. If less than that, I would recommend > > Opera, althouth some buggy in file upload and no java

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:30:45 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Campbell said: > > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total > > lockups which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I > > think, but not sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been run

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

On 15 Nov 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > > rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more > > resources than just leaving it on). Is that sti

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

Tuomas Pellonpera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/11/2001 (13:14) : > Does (daily) shutting down and rebooting wear out the hardware more than > leaving the computer on for days/weeks/months does? Cannot see why it should. Your harddisc, CD-ROMs etc will all stop spinning which means less friction

GNU Emacs 21 for potato

If I got that right you can not just install Emacs 21 from source on potato. I have tried to download a backport from but the download always failed after some time. So how do I install GNU Emacs 21 (and the related Lisp files) on my potato box?

dhcp with kernel 2.4?

In order to get support for a Netgear FA311 NIC, I've upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 (on Potato). It's working okay, except it's useless. That is, I can use tcpdump and see that the card is receiving packets, but none of the three DHCP clients in Potato (pump, dhclient, dhcpcd) work with kernel 2.4. I

Broken libc6 package

Hi, I'm afraid I made a very big fault. I have a potato 2.2r4. I wanted to upgrade the libc6 package from woody and other packages without passing by a 'dist-upgrade' via apt-get, just using dpkg. The upgrade was ok. Then (I don't know why I made that! ), I wanted to downgrade the same package a

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

Hi, On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: > Tuomas Pellonpera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/11/2001 (13:14) : > > Does (daily) shutting down and rebooting wear out the hardware more than > > leaving the computer on for days/weeks/months does? > > Cannot see why it should. Your harddisc,

Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?

Hi Carl dhclient works with 2.4 for me. You might just need to upgrade the package. Also make sure that the correct options are enabled in the kernel. Im not sure about all of them but you need at least socket filtering (I think). Hope this helps, Shri --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

testing-konqueror busted

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png, which is also in package kdebase They are both selected... I have even tried moveing this file away so it will not find the file - it still finds the file. so, I put a hold on konqueror and re-ran it. It's still

Re: apt-get: 404s on update/install

I am getting this a lot as well. My primary source is the local mirror which takes longer to update than the servers under http://http.us.debian.org My feeling for this is that the index files are uploaded before the actual package files. This would mean that when you do an update you end up with

Truncating inode number ?!

Hi I just find you on the internet, and sorry if I am sending you an email without autorization ... I have a problem with CPIO . When I use a comand like: Find /home/gusatvo -print|cpio -ocvB -O /dev/st0 I receive a message "truncating inode number" for eac

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

Preben writes: > Cannot see why it should. Thermal cycling. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Qmail & local deliver

I installed qmail (smtp, pop3) and everything is OK, but when i log onto smtp-server and write 'mail user' or 'mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail do not come. How made qmail do deliver local mail ? Where is HOWTO about it?

corrupted partion table

Please cc: answers, I have not access to my regular pc right now. I am a debian developer (tca), so if you give advise that you thing will succeed, please attach some bug numbers to missing man pages or anything other booring stuff I can to for you. (I cannot sign the message since I'm not on a

2 GB limit with ext2

Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. Antti Antti My PGP public key: http://linux.tola.org/~chicken/antti_pgp.txt -- S

Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?

Carl Fink wrote: > In order to get support for a Netgear FA311 NIC, I've upgraded to > kernel 2.4.2 (on Potato). It's working okay, except it's useless. > > That is, I can use tcpdump and see that the card is receiving > packets, but none of the three DHCP clients in Potato (pump, > dhclient,

C++: no hash_map while it is there?

[15:50:16 tmp]$ cat main.cc #include int main(void) { return 0; } [15:50:23 tmp]$ g++-3.0 -Wall -ggdb -o main main.cc main.cc:1:20: hash_map: No such file or directory [15:50:27 tmp]$ wc /usr/include/g++-3/hash_map 40 1981330 /usr/include/g++-3/hash_map [15:51:39 tmp]$ Is th

RE: Laptop install, console screen small

Hi! According to the docs concerning the Latitude C600 found at http://www.linux-laptop.net you should compile VESA framebuffer into the kernel and add "vga=773" as a kernel parameter to /etc/lilo.conf, then run lilo again and after the next reboot you should have a 1024x768 text console at 25

Re: Re: Best choice for video card

David Teague wrote: >I'm running Enlightenment with Gnome 1.4. Can someone advise me >further? Good! Enlightenment is a damn fine WM. Snazzy... My personal comments - it's fine if you'll use it at home, and when you've got lots of juice like RAM and processing power. However, should you falter

Re: Re: Debian-lilo

Graeme Orton wrote: > >Hi i have my hard drive partisioned. One for Linux (debian) and the >other for windows. I had lilo configured to load windows as default >and to stop it i pressed 'shift' to boot debian. I recently >installed >windows-xp professional and lilo load has dissapereard and >i c

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want >to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? An upgraded e2fsprogs. If you're using sid and upgrade it quite so often, you've got no problem on that department. Paolo Alexis Falcone __

Re: acroread,xpdf hassle

Glen Snyder wrote: >I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is >running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats >itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document unreadable >(this is with any pdf file). If I try to advance to another page

Re: Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

Robert L. Harris wrote: >If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then >what? Is there a simple how to? make an ext2 filesystem from that partition by issuing mkfs -t ext2 -j -c0 -i0 /dev/your_disk_no This will also create a journal inode then disable the 180-day forc

Re: GNU Emacs 21 for potato

Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I got that right you can not just install Emacs 21 from source > on potato. I have tried to download a backport from > > but the download always failed after some time. > > So how do I install GNU E

Re: Free ISP in California?

well, try a windows dialup to gain access, that is, for registration and then afterwards your laptop..i dont know if that works

Re: Broken libc6 package

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 14:02:35 +0100, BURLET Frederic wrote: > Then (I don't know why I made that! ), I wanted to downgrade the same > package and the downgrade failed AFAIK downgrading libc6 isn't supported. > #dpkg -i libc6_2.2.4-5_i386.deb > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. Probably your

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > Mike Dresser said: > > > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. > > cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the vers

Re: booting is very difficult

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:42:07 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote: >i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the >same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to >boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine >though. I just s

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

> Mike Dresser said: > > > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. > > cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the version thats in > potato supports po

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Preben writes: > > Cannot see why it should. > > Thermal cycling. I was told recently that this was not an issue with newer hardware... d'you happen to know of any recent research on the subject :-)

kernel-source-2.4.4_all.deb somehere?

Hi I'm playing around with RTLinux. It is a available as a patch for kernel 2.4.4, but this kernel is no longer available as a debian package. Anyone has a deb-file lying somewhere? I'd appreciate a copy of it if so. I know how to use kernel-package and a standard kernel source code to compile th

Re: testing-konqueror busted

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:12:02AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png, which is also > in package kdebase (a) Read the list archives - it's been discussed several times recently. (b) dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/a

Re: Broken libc6 package

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:02:35PM +0100, BURLET Frederic wrote: > Now when I want to install the testing/stable libc6 > package I have these error messages: > > #dpkg -i libc6_2.2.4-5_i386.deb > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. Stable's libc6 required the ldso package for ldconfig. You should

Re: warnquota segfaults in testing/unstable

OK! It looks like the latest version of quota fixed the problem. Berthold Cogel

ssh and forwarding sessions

Hello, My work computer is located behind a firewall, and the only way to ssh into it is to first ssh to one of the university's unix machines, and then ssh to the work computer. I finally learned that I can forward the ssh connection by adding "command=ssh IPADDRESS" to the authorized_keys

Re: apt-get: 404s on update/install

Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install > attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. I've seen that occasionally, but usually if I try again after an hour, everything's fine. The only exception to that was Wednesday evening this week,

Re: acroread,xpdf hassle-SOLVED

Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When you have opened acroread, click on the "File" button, > > then "Preferences" then "General"; then uncheck (disable) > > "Smooth Text and Images". > Hey that worked great for me! Thanks. I'm using the > xserver-svga running at 24bit color and and

Netscape6.2/Mozilla0.9.5 broken for Debian/Sid

I also utilize the KDE 2.2.1 windowing environment which may have contributed to this problem. After an upgrade in Sid today (11/16/01), both packages fail X-windows/KDE hard and I receive back the linux console. I have attached the X-windows output for both failures (NS and mozilla). I susp

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:54:36AM +0100, op wrote: | Also sprach "Timo: | | > b) evolution: needs lots of dependencies (many from GNOME) and was | > broken in sid last time, but when it works, it is just the best; a pure | > Outlook clone but better! (mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, portal...)

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html --- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile > the kernel then > what? Is there a simple how to? > > > Thus spake Stephen Rueger > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 200

Re: Free ISP in California?

[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-Nov-16 05:58 +0100: > Hi all, > > I've just moved to Pasadena (CA) from Italy and would like to know where > I can find an ISP who offers (free) dial-up connection (if any). > > Those whom I've been able to find all requre a Window$ program to be > installed. > > Of co

Re: server advice

* Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ...> > I've never had to buy a server before. I'd really appreciate some > advice from you wise ones about what kind of hardware you would advise > for a task like this, and where you would go to get it. Web/mail server will be i/o bound, so you d

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total lockups > which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I think, but not > sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been running at these times. > Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. > >

can exim be started with tcp wrappers?

hi all, i would like to change smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs to smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs in inetd.conf. i'd like to do this so i can drop spammer's IP addresses in /etc/hosts.deny so that my host won't

Way OT: openSSH 2.9.9p2, perl and cron SNAFU

Hi all, this is way OT, but maybe someone can come up with an explanation. Here's a snippet of perl I'm trying to run as a cron job: open( IN, "$cmd |" ); # read output of $cmd via pipe while( $line = ) { push @lines, $line; # store it in array } close( IN ); foreach $line (@lines) { print

Re: GNU Emacs 21 for potato

Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I got that right you can not just install Emacs 21 from source > on potato. I have tried to download a backport from > > but the download always failed after some time. > > So how do I install GNU E

Re: 404s on update/install

"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install > attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. >---snip---< I have been noticing this too over the last 2-3 weeks. It started about the time I started using the "preferences" file in apt-get t

Re: can exim be started with tcp wrappers?

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:40:56 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >i would like to change > > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > >to > > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > >in inetd.conf. i'd like to do this so i can drop spam

Re: can exim be started with tcp wrappers?

hi ralf, begin: Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:40:56 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > It would work -- but usually Exim already includes the tcpd stuff, so that > Exim *automagically* uses /etc/hosts.(allow,deny). You don't need to prefix > the inetd.conf

Help for the UDMAmentally challenged ...

I built a new machine for myself (finally .. it replaces a PII-333 box, it's been a while) ... that's relavent so I don't look like a 'complete' idiot here; I haven't played with new hardware in a while -- Anyway, it's an ASUS A7V266-E board with Promise UDMA controller on board with 2 Barracuda

RE: G400

I played around with my ICAClient settings and got it to work fine again! There are two places to set color depth and I think the problem resulted because one was set for 8-bit color and the other for 16-bit color. I set both at 24-bit and it looks great under XFree86 3.3.6. I think I re-entered

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I can sucesfully make > 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support > 2g files but most of the critical ones do and for those that don't it is fa

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

> "Antti" == Antti Tolamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antti> Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my Antti> system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do Antti> have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. XFS should be able to handle la

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

Rupa Schomaker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I forgot to mention that. Potato 2.2.19r4 Antti

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

nate wrote: > > Erik Steffl said: > > > (that was the only error) > > try forcing a bad block scan. when ive gotten that remounting > error i had bad blocks. a good sign for a failing drive or > otherwise misconfigured system(cable too long, controller > going bad, bad driver etc) would be if t

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Which release, which kernel? > > I can sucesfully make > 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using > either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. > > There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support > 2g files but > most of the critica

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